Jamie King (Sin City) joins Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit, the tale of a young cop who is murdered and comes back to life to fight the criminals in Central City. King will take on the role of Lorelei Rox. She joins Gabriel Macht (The Good Shepherd) who plays the hero, as well as Sarah Paulson (Deadwood), Morgan Freeman, Scarlett Johansson, and Eva Mendes. (IESB) [imdb]

Adrien Brody (The Darjeeling Limited) and Sarah Polley (Dawn of the Dead) will star in the science fiction thriller Splice. They'll play two young biogeneticist who become superstars by splicing different animal DNA to create fantastical new creatures. They ignore the legal and ethical boundaries and introduce human DNA into their experiment. (Hollywood Reporter)

Trailer for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman and Sacha Baron Cohen. [imdb]

Neve Campbell (Scream), Rupert Penry-Jones (Spooks) and Bradley Whitford (The West Wing) will star in a 2-part miniseries thriller about oil lobbyists, environmentalists and global warming, called Burn Up. Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty) is writing the teleplay, and Omar Madha (Spooks) is directing. (Variety) [imdb]

IGN hears that Ian McKellan and Kathy Bates will lend their voices to characters in Chris Weitz's The Golden Compass, as Iorek Byrnison and a daemon respectively. The scooper also reports that Christopher Lee will appear in the film as a member of the Magisterium. [imdb]

Via sinful_caesar, a new trailer for The Tudors, season two.